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WILLOW CREEK EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About WILLOW CREEK EL
Set in KINGWOOD, Texas, WILLOW CREEK EL is an average-sized elementary school, one of the schools within HUMBLE ISD. It serves 581 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Within HUMBLE ISD, which oversees 50 schools and 48,502 students, WILLOW CREEK EL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, WILLOW CREEK EL records that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WILLOW CREEK EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Harris County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLOW CREEK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.9%; this one delivers 71.7%.
Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WILLOW CREEK EL is one.
RIVERWOOD MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WILLOW CREEK EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.8%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLOW CREEK EL has rose 14%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 81% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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